House Republicans reignited a debate over the minimum wage Monday with a move to exempt some servers, bartenders and other tipped workers from future hikes — a likely non-starter for the Democrats in control of the Senate and governor's office.

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Amidst all the hubbub of yesterday's student protests outside the Capitol, a Bouncer mini-controversy was apparently brewing inside the building, our friends at the Inquirer report. Capitol scribes were taken by...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Today is July 29,2011, just a scant four days remain for the Obama administration and Congressional negotiators to reach an agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling, sand the backyard deck of state and to...

Good Afternoon, All. If there was any doubt, it looks like the vogue for reform has passed and the wave of anger from the 2006 cycle has officially subsided. We've just gone and checked the list of candidates from the...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Welcome to the final weekend of July 2012. August is almost upon us, and, with it, the final opportunities to wring some fun out this sweltering summer. So, with that in mind, we'll dive right...

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Re “Talk at 10: Leno to get new NBC show,” Dec. 9
It is great that Jay Leno gets to save his job by moving to 10 p.m. while hundreds of good-paying union jobs -- acting, writing and otherwise -- will be lost as more scripted television shows are eliminated. NBC executives are shortsighted on this job issue also.
Greed is good ... if you are Leno or top brass at a network. As a Screen Actors Guild member, I hope the 10 p.m. Leno show falls fast in the ratings because of a...

Gov. Charlie Crist says Tom Rooney, a former assistant attorney under him when he was attorney general, has the best chance to win Florida's 16th Congressional District.
Rooney is going up against state Rep. Gayle Harrell of Stuart and investment banker Hal Valeche, a former Palm Beach Gardens councilman, in the Aug. 26 primary.
The winner will take on Tim Mahoney, the incumbent Democrat, in November. Retaking the seven-county district is considered a top priority for Republicans.
"Tom's a friend,"...

If President Bush were looking for a way to raise the ire of Democrats in south Palm Beach County, he may have hit the mark on Thursday. Despite repeated promises that he would not insert himself into the presidential race,...

Almost everyone is reporting that Hillary Clinton is planning to concede the Democratic nomination fight to Barack Obama, but one local superdelegate, U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, sent out a statement saying he's not yet ready to back Obama. Mahoney, a...

U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney of Palm Beach Gardens is a Democrat with a trio of expected Republican challengers this fall. But on Friday, a news release from his campaign made it seem more like he is running against presumptive...

Former state Rep. Joe Negron, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in the shadow of the Mark Foley sex scandal, said today he'd run for Ken Pruitt's Senate seat, which includes parts of Palm Beach County. Negron, who now...